WeeklyUpdates/2007-08-06
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Meeting Details
- 1:00pm Pacific time (20:00 UTC until November 4, 2007)
- Mozilla HQ, 1st floor conference table
- +1 650 903 0800 x91 Conf# 8600 (US/International)
- +1 416 848 3114 x91 Conf# 8600 (Canada)
- +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8600 (US Toll Free)
- join irc.mozilla.org #staffmeeting for attendance taking and backchannel
note: all participants are muted automatically; if you want to talk, press *1 to un-mute yourself
In Attendance
Development Updates
Fx/TB 1.5.0.13/2.0.0.6
TB 3
- Hunspell has now landed on the trunk, improving the spell checking experience. Thanks to RyanVM and Németh László.
- Thunderbird can now read from the Mac OS X system address book! Thanks to everyone who helped work on this, especially peterv and a.peyser.
Gecko 1.9
- Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 Released
- M8 Code Freeze: Sept 5. (Approx 355 blockers remain with 99 of those targeted for M8).
Firefox 3
IT
- Maintenance this week
- Pageload server migration, try #3
- Kernel updates
- wiki.m.o migration and upgrade
- LDAP maintenance
- Facebook app launched, more migrations to php5 cluster
- Continued breakpad support and maintenance
- MPT cage expansion (pics to come)
Build
QA
Security
Marketing/PR
Community
Mozilla Labs
Developer Relations
Webdev, Add-ons, AMO
- Rock Your Firefox (add-ons Facebook app) launched Thursday
- We currently have about 650 users - pretty graphs as of yesterday
- No major bugs have been reported, so we'll be increasing PR this week
- Bouncer
- Performance patch up Tuesday
- Other features for build to help during releases
- bug 390201 - UI to show mirror uptake
- bug 390199 - Flag for products to be checked immediately (for newer releases)
- Wil and I got some OSCON blog love -- woot!
Foundation Updates
Note: This update includes material from the previous week as well.
- Executive director search
- The search committee had its first meeting; for more information see the meeting notes.
- Grants and related activities
- As part of our efforts to improve the accessibility of Firefox and the web, particularly on free and open source platforms, the Foundation will be funding improvements to the GNOME AT-SPI accessibility API on Linux and enhancements to the Orca screen reader for Linux. Also, Eitan Isaacson completed his Foundation-funded work on the Accerciser accessibility test tool for GNOME /Linux. Last but definitely not least, Aaron Leventhal was one of five winners of the 2007 Google/O'Reilly Open Source Awards, for his work on Mozilla and Firefox accessibility.
- IP/legal issues
- Frank Hecker is responding to licensing-related questions to the Foundation while Gerv Markham is on vacation.
- Web sites
- David Boswell has created a Foundation page on wiki.mozilla.org for Foundation-related work in progress, links to staff blogs, etc.
- Other
- Along with Mitchell, David, Frank, and Zak Greant participated in the Internet as a Public Good symposium at Harvard. Thanks go to Zak for his work in getting the symposium organized!
- Gerv is on vacation until later this month.
For more information see the individual status reports from David, Frank, Gerv, and Zak.